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up⋅bring⋅ing

  [uhp-bring-ing]
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–noun
the care and training of young children or a particular type of such care and training: His religious upbringing fitted him to be a missionary.
Origin:
1475–85; up- + bringing
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up·bring·ing   (ŭp'brĭng'ĭng)   
n.  The rearing and training received during childhood.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

upbringing 
1520, "act of rearing a young person," from up + bringing (see bring). Mainly in Scottish till c.1870, when it became general.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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